Record ID: SOM-624591
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper-alloy symmetrical double-loop buckle frame dating to the period c. AD 1550-1700. The frame is plain and rectangular. It is bevelled externally and internally on the front, though far more shallowly externally. The rear surface is flat. The pin bar is trapezoidal in cross-section and has a similar width and thickness to the sides of the frame (2.0 x 1.4mm). The pin is missing. On the outer edge of the frame, at one end of the pin bar, there is a small raised knop, which appears to be a casting sprue or a misscast. The piece is covered by a dark green patina all ove…
Created on: Thursday 5th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th April 2018
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Record ID: SOM-610B35
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Medieval copper-alloy French/Low Countries jetton of the Duchy of Burgundy dating from AD 1300-1384. The obverse depicts a quartered square topped shield quarterly of France-Burgundy, reverse a probable triple stranded cross fleuretty within a four-arched tressure with a rosette in each angle. cf. Mitchiner (1988: 253) no. 794.
Created on: Thursday 5th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 4th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-5FA159
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy horse harness pendant with enamelled heraldic decoration. The pendant is in the shape of a square topped shield with a transverse suspension lug projecting from the centre of the top of the shield. The loop is has a sub-circular hole through it, possibly worn. The shield appears to be decorated with: gules three lions passant guardant or with a label of three points azure. A red back ground with three gold lions on it and at the top over one of the lions a blue bar with three short blue bars extending down from it. Only small parts of the enamel survive, mai…
Created on: Thursday 5th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingsbury Episcopi CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5E8D89
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy pot mend, consisting of a staple rivet, probably dating to c. AD 1475-1600. The mend is of a lozenge shaped sheet of copper alloy folded in on itself, to create a sub-rectangular plate which would have had two sub-triangular prongs projecting from the reverse; both prongs are lost to a patinated break. Dimensions: length 38.3mm, width 20.8mm tapering to 15.4mm, thickness 1.8mm, 3.6mm along the site of the prong breaks; weight: 5.52g. Egan (2005: 101, nos. 460-463) notes that such pot repairs were in use from the Early Medieval period, but were at the…
Created on: Thursday 5th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shepton Beauchamp CP', grid reference and parish protected.